What Would Daniel Look Like at Fifteen ?

Perhaps Daniel would look something like this.

Some time ago I told you about a remarkable business in the US, where alterations and adjustments in photographs can be made. www.phojoe.com has a host of remarkable services. Adopted children who have no baby pictures, can have baby pictures made, based on pictures of them as older children now. Families whose children have been abducted and lost to them, can have age progressed pictures of their children made for use by the police. I have chosen twice to have an age progressed picture of Daniel made. Daniel was called to leave us at 12 and a half, and would now be 15 years of age. The above photograph is based on a variety of photos we provided to Phojoe of both Daniel and his siblings. This is how they believe Daniel might look if he had remained here on Earth. I get an odd sort of comfort having these pictures.
Phojoe does an excellent job and is kind and respectful to families in bereavement.

Daniel, I miss you so, but I have come to believe that you are safe, and occupied, but that you do know what we are doing and that you look on us with love and compassion. You have been and continue to be one of my life's greatest joys, and I suspect that you always will be.

Probably Not Really Like Daniel

A photographer's conception of how Daniel might look if he were still on Earth today.





Some time ago, I located a company that will take a picture of a child who has passed, and age the child from childhood to adulthood or anything in between. They run specials at Mother's Day and Father's Day. They also do a number of other rather miraculous photography alterations, and they are very diligent. In reality, other than a haircut, growth in height, maybe thinning out a little or having shoulders broaden even more, I don't expect Daniel to have recognizably changed TOO much since he left here at 12 1/2. I think I would know him if he passed me on the street. For Mother's Day, I provided several pictures of Daniel, and asked them to age him to 14, the age he would be right now. The picture above is what they thought he might look like. Of course, our other children, two of them artists, don't agree. (Our daughter is a professional illustrator and our eldest son, a professional sculptor.) They believe he would be more muscular and that his eyes would be larger. One said he would never have submitted to a haircut which exposed his ears. (That might be true, but as we grow, we do change)
Should you ever want an age progressed or age regressed picture of anyone, an adopted child, a lost child, etc. this is the website of the company that does these. They also have a number of other services. (They can actually take seperate pictures of relatives and incorporate the two of three people into one photo.)


http://www.phojoe.com/


Someday I might provide some different photos to them and see what they come up with again. After all, it serves me right for trying to take a premature glance into Heaven !


As for the song below, I don't think that Daniel could ever have heard it while on Earth, but somehow I believe that he would LOVE this song. I have a copy of the CD in his room.
The parody of the song at the end is very much like something Daniel would like. One of his favorite things to do was to alter or amend a song a la Wierd Al Yankovic, whom he once saw in concert.